cial or tial

Objective Guidance Word List Teaching Sequence

Endings which –cial is common official, special, artificial, Investigate
sound like /ʃəl/ after a vowel letter partial, confidential,
and –tial after a essential Sort the words by their end sound. Can they identify how they
consonant letter, but know? What sound comes before the ending?
there are some
exceptions. Closed sort or speed sort-cial or tial
Exceptions: initial, Discuss and possibly sort by word class
financial,
commercial,
provincial (the
spelling of the last Challenge
three is clearly
related to finance, Can they think of any topic words that fit with the rule?
commerce and
province). Word hunt: From a text/ book or using Ace Dictionary or within
normal lessons

Collaborative test: Read the example words and ask pairs to

attempt to spell them. Send one partner off to another pair to
discuss and feedback.

Word web: Various words and share

Reflect
Rules poster

Dictation of paragraph including all the words learnt so far